Hi, I would have to agree. At-Large seems to care far more about the Law Enforcement point of view than it has cared about the Privacy point of view. I have felt an ever increasing Law and Order posture in At-Large over the last years. Those arguing for Privacy are definitely in the minority. a. On 31 Jan 2011, at 11:53, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
On 31 January 2011 11:37, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
I really wish that the ALAC would get over the 1990s idea that somehow it represents the tiny handful of individual vanity domain registrants (such as me) in preference to the vast majority of users who have never registered a domain and never will.
Pardon?
I hope I'm not lumped in with that description.
Registrants are -- at least in the ICANN flowchart -- supposely represented by the non-contracted house of GNSO. Whether that's an appropriate or effective vehicle for their interests is a different debate,
But At-Large is (always in theory and increasingly in practise) about the individual end user -- I still bristle at the term "consumer" because even that implies financial transaction. It has taken some time finding its feet but I don't think that the ALAC of today speaks to the vanity interests you speak of. Indeed, privacy advocates have (at least in my experience) found At-Large to be not particularly friendly to the notion that domain owners have the unrestricted right to hide.
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